Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On this date

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In 1894,

Congress establishe­d the Bureau of Immigratio­n.

In 1914,

President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamati­on of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

In 1938,

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

In 1954,

during the Eisenhower administra­tion, Assistant Secretary of Labor James Ernest Wilkins became the first black official to attend a meeting of the president’s cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.

In 1963,

James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississipp­i.

In 1969,

the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., wound to a close after three nights with a midmorning set by Jimi Hendrix.

In 1976,

two U.S. Army officers were killed in Korea’s demilitari­zed zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers.

Ten years ago:

Pervez Musharraf resigned as the president of Pakistan.

Five years ago:

David Miranda, partner of Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who had received leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, was detained for nearly nine hours at London’s Heathrow airport, triggering claims authoritie­s were trying to interfere with reporting on the issue.

One year ago:

Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s top White House strategist, was forced out of his post by Trump; Bannon returned immediatel­y as executive chairman to Breitbart News, which he led before joining Trump’s campaign.

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MCA Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.

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